Issue #7 of the broadsheet newspaper publication of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago, New York City and Boston. October 2008 articles include: Finance capital by the Platypus Historians Group; 5 questions to the student Left by Pamela Nogales and Ben Shepard; Iraq and the election by Chris Cutrone; A polemic on protest (on the Republican National Convention protest) by Raechel Tiffe; Violence at the RNC by Benjamin Blumberg and Ian Morrison; Capital in history by Chris Cutrone; Reenacting '68 by Liam Warfield.